Shadows of Eternal Winter (Inactive)

Game Master Feral

Not that it matrers it was Dorvren postion forward that got hit. And I think your third cause you needed to be near the melees for your bonuses lol.

Dam the Dice didn't like you guys.

A +10 AoE attack as a second encounter is DESIGNED not to like the party.

divineshadow wrote:

I know what you mean at alex.

Okay so for this we are gonna move Grim up to the front and then it happens....

That works for me, too. Ranger on point or as rearguard. Both make perfect sense.

It was only cause you were specified as being the one opening the box.

I know I read it in the book was like oh that's gonna hurt. I took off a point or two of the dmg mod also. And this stuff is supposed to be on 15pb half my party would be dead.

I believe the only effect that has such an immediate range factor is Flagbearer, and it still is about 30'.

I am assuming each square is 5' so 6 squares away would do. Aldiran's AC is not too shabby now that I am taking a second look at the others - the only issue with her being in melee is if she has to cast, but since I already spent one of my 2 daily level 1 spells, I guess it is ok.

I didn't mean you had to stay there lol. I kinda see you as being halfway between the Melees and the bow chumps lol.

BTW, I think Grimgisli is the only character in the group with the Trapfinding ability. I just rolled an 8 on the D20 when I checked the chest before opening it. The dice giveth and the dice taketh away.

That is true its one of the reasons you were selected. Grim it was another mark in your favor out of the crowd lol. And yeah it was a case of the dice give and take. If you had rolled just a bit higher.... in fact yours was the only character of worth that applied that had trap finding lol.

Meh as its opened when its opened either way trap is sprung however now that that is out of the way someone did make the check to notice all the goodies under the chest. So hurray for that.

And yeah that was evil the whole empty chest thing almost as bad as when I.... never mind you will all be happier not knowing lol.

Also how does the group feel about being guinea pigs? I have something I want to try as an alt for an encounter just down the way that I think would be more interesting than just combat. I wish to do it as a skill challenge. If the party would rather do combat that is also fine.

I am all for guinea pigs and skill challenges :D

Variety is good. :)

Sweet I figured you guys would be lol.

We moving forward guys?

Lets move. Meir can wear the chain shirt since no one claimed it.

Throw the rest in the loot pile and dorvren will carry the dagger for now

Will when I get a majority consensus.

ok i found a more generic map that might work, i just threew us all on it, and we need to be resized, but i am out of time atm

This is another mapless encounter in the book lol.

Got ya! just making sure you always have something to use

Did you get my email?

yep got it! just replied

Now that I think about it we got distracted by the chest and never did finish our vote/ discussion.... all in favor of group init say Aye all who wish to do individual say Nay. Note Morrigan should this vote turn to Aye you may reselect your feat and what not if you wish.

I think that Stolen Faces' reference may work out best in the long run, not penalizing people that chose stuff like Improved Initiative.

I have played in PbP where the adventurers ALWAYS acted first, unless in particular situations of surprise and whatnot, effectively rendering such feat useless -> The impact in game terms was minimal.

We could simply define 2 groups: Those that act before the bad guys, and those that act after the bad guys -> Everyone would post their actions when they can, informing of contingency actions, the divineshadow would resolve them as needed. Think it would slow things too much?

Oh and yeah, GM rolls initiative - it is much better that way.

I also like having DM roll initiative for all. No wait8ng and it is all right there in one post.

As to the other, I will abstain from the vote. I would say do whatever is easy and runs smoothly. But I will have to think about switching feats if it goes for the ayes. I may or may not.

aye

Okay as it stands
1 yea
1nay
1 abstaining.

Group initiative, long live simplicity.

Really don't care. It is a mechanics thing. The game is (hopefully) about the story.

It is lol. So
2aye
1nay
2abstain

That leaves Sf and alex to vote.

Hey.

My mom just asked me to come visit this weekend. I make no promises about how much I will or will not post while there. They re well connected to the internet, and have plenty of resources for me to use through said connection, BUT . . ..

The point is to spend time with family, not closed in a room by myself.

I'm 48. The people I am told are there already are both of my parents, both of my dad's older brothers, and my dad's mom. This could well be the last time all of her boys are together with her. She isn't really ill. She's "just" over 90 years old . . ..

I won't leave until tomorrow morning, so I will be as active until then as normal.

I don't mind something a bit out of the ordinary that's not combat. Just as long as we don't get rid of combat from the entire adventure. lol

so is that a yes for goup initiative or a no?

Oh. ^_^;; It's a yes!

3aye
1nay
2abstain

Stolen face let to vote.

Do any of the abstaining wish to vote if not I'm gonna say the Ayes have it. And Morrigan may change her feat and trait choices and whatnot.

I am with the nay crowd on this one.

Because of the abstains who unless they want to come down on the nay side the Ayes still have it. And Morrigan is right it is something I should have announced in recruitment. I honestly didn't think about it though.

@Morrigan respec those feats and what not as you like.

Once Morrigan has chimed in that she's respeced as she wishes or it hits 8pm my time I will post the next encounter. But I'm going to bed for a few hours just got home from work.

I have respecced. Traits remained the same. Took extra hex (cackle) as a replacement for the feat.

Kool juat woke up will get things up in a bit.

I will do some explaining now. Each turn which represents a minute or two of time each character makes a skill check. This check is what determines what happens this turn. You are looking to build up to a certain total of successes to win. Its like an extended check for several different skills.

Dicebot won't give me a freaking SEVEN on a d20? <sigh>

Hey don't feel bad I could roll higher than three for a week one time. Execpt in my warhammer game where I wanted threes. Stupid dice bot.

divineshadow, is it ok if I OOC here a tad so we can decide what to do next?

My opinion:

- Those with better chances at hit, try to hit the attackers;
- Same reasoning to get the fey free;
- And to get the shelter up and running

In this scenario, Aldiran is only good at the Perception rolls (+6 to find the Fey still undiscovered - one left so I believe only one of us should do it) or Survival to build the shelter (+7, and we need five sucesses, so perhaps two of us should go at this one asap), so I believe she should be assigned to one of those.

Perhaps:

- One to fend off the attackers - Grimgisli?
- One to heal/stabilize the fey - Stolen Face?
- Me and Dorvren to build the shelter?

Dunno, these are just examples so that we are not overlapping in tasks - you guys tell me where you wanna stand :D

Fine with me its what the thread is for lol. :p

But no I encourage discussing what to do.

@ Aldiran: I actually really agree with that plan. Alex really is only good at Perception (+5), the retrieval of the fey (+10), and possibly taking some heat off of Stolen Face (+10 but with not a lot of HP), if he is near dropping.

The creatures are probably too far away for any spell to prove useful that's in Alex's arsenal.

I will work in a rest period after this people I intended this encounter to stretch you guys thin.... I'm just glad everyone is enjoying though I wish Mier would show back up. He got til morning. But he doesn't seem to be posting at all last I checked so I worry something happened.

Yeah I have a number of spells that could have been useful here. Just none memorized. Oh well, back to failing the skill checks. At least the bird is useful! lol

Note Morrigan I will allow your familiar to rescue one fey around for free.... but he has to have treatment that rd.... if you and SF work togther on that....

Ok, going forward I will have him bring the fey to me... or she'll catch them while standing beneath when he breaks them free or whatnot. However you see that working.